I am so glad that you found her and saved her! One of my cats is a rescue also. She and her 4 brothers were found at 1 week of age blindly trying to suck moisture out of the earth in someone's yard. Covered with fleas and ticks. Mom had apparently been run over or something like that, as cats are normally great and devoted moms. Fortunately, a kind person found them just in time and gave them over to an experienced orphan kitten raiser. Each of the woman's 5 teenage kids kept a kitten in their pocket, feeding it every 2 hours. They pulled 3 of the 5 through, including my stunning and brilliant tortie and white, Kefira.
Aw, what a beauty. I had a cat that looked like her when i was growing up. She lived to be 17 years old and only two of those years we didn’t share a pillow, which were her last two years after I married and moved to an apartment that didn’t allow pets. She stayed with my Mom who pampered her.